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PROSTATE
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 49-56Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pros.20320
Keywords
hereditary; prostate; cancer; gene; polymorphisms
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- NCI NIH HHS [R21 CA98020, P30 CA91842] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R21CA098020, P30CA091842] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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BACKGROUND. ELAC2, MSR1, and RNASEL are candidate genes for hereditary prostate carcinoma (HPC). While, studies have demonstrated that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes are associated with sporadic disease as well as HPC, these results are often not replicated in follow-up studies. Given that the majority of patients studied had localized disease and up to 50% of localized prostate cancer is clinically insignificant, the inability to replicate the initial findings may reflect that some subjects had indolent tumors. Herein, we examine patients with metastatic disease to determine if an association exists between HPC SNPs and unambiguously significant prostate cancer. METHODS. We examined polymorphisms within ELAC2 (S217L, A541T, E622V), MSR1 (P275A, R293X, aIVS5-59c), and RNASEL (E265X, R462Q, D541E) in 150 European-Americans with metastatic prostate cancer and 170 prostate cancer-free controls using pyrosequencing assays. RESULTS. Only ELAC2 217L (37% cases vs. 29% controls (P = 0.034)) and RNASEL 541E (61% cases vs. 53% controls (P = 0.045)) were over-represented. Analysis of genotypes revealed that presence of the leucine ELAC2 allele (OR 1.54: 95% CI=0.99-2.41, SS vs. SL, LL) and omozygosity for the glutamic acid RNASEL allele (OR 1.68:95% CI - 1.04-2.70, EE vs. DE, DD) were associated with increased risk. Patients with both genotypes were of particularly high-risk (OR 2.66: 95% CI 1.36-5.19). CONCLUSIONS. These results suggest that, in a European-American population, ELAC2 217L and RNASEL 541E are associated with metastatic sporadic disease. ELAC2 and RNASEL SNP analysis may prove useful in determining which patients are at risk for developing clinically significant prostate carcinoma.
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